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<div>To the Biology Community -</div>
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<div>The department is pleased to announce that the following students received Biology awards and recognition at the Undergraduate Dinner. Congratulations to all!</div>
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<div><b>Amanda Cao</b> - Salvador E. Luria Prize - For scholarship and research of publication quality in Prof. David Sabatini’s lab. Mentor: Maria Mihaylova</div>
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<div><b>Meenakshi Chakraborty - </b>Susan Hockfield Prize in Life Sciences - For a third-year MIT undergraduate student in any area of the life sciences who has demonstrated both exceptional performance and promise for graduate study and research. Meena works
in Prof. Phil Sharp’s lab. Mentor: Salil Garg</div>
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<div><b>Abbey Diener - </b><font color="#000000">Gene Brown Prize - For outstanding academic scholarship, and demonstrated excellence as a teaching assistant</font> in 7.02</div>
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<div><b>Chun-Ting Liu - </b> Merck Prize - For outstanding research and academic performance in biophysical or bioinformatics science in Prof. Jing-ke Weng’s lab. Mentor: Michael Torrens-Spence</div>
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<div><b>Kimia Ziadkhanpour - </b>Ned Holt Prize - For demonstrated excellence in scholarship as well as service to the MIT community.</div>
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<div><b>Sarah Stern - </b>Whitehead Prize - For outstanding promise for a career in biological research through academic scholarship as well as contributions to research and the MIT community, for work in Prof. Peter Reddien's lab. Mentor: Aneesha Tewari</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Undergraduate Research Symposium 2018 Speakers </b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">These students were nominated by faculty and selected to speak at the Undergraduate Symposium in February 2018 </font><b>Mary Clare Beytagh, </b><b>Meenakshi Chakraborty, </b><b>Emily Damato, </b><b>Celeste Dang, </b><b>Kimberly
Feng, </b><b>Madeleine Kline, </b><b>Stacie Lin, </b><b>Alexandra Stanton, </b><b>Sarah Stern</b></div>
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<div><b>Biology Phi Beta Kappa inductees</b></div>
<div><b>Mohammed AlDajani, </b><b>Erika Arias, </b><b>Mary Clare Beytagh, </b><b>Marjorie Buss, </b><b>Christina Dalzell, </b><b>Jennifer Li, </b><b>Puwanat Sangkhapreecha, </b><b>Claire Simpson, </b><b>Brian Zhong, </b><b>Kimia Ziadkhanpour</b></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Goldwater Scholarship - </b>this is a competitive national scholarship and MIT can nominate a few students for this scholarship. This year two of our majors </font><b>Meenakshi Chakraborty and Anna Sappington</b> are recipients
of of this award.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Rhodes Scholar</b> - Recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship are selected based on scholarly achievement, character, commitment to the public good, and leadership potential. The </font>scholarship provides funding for
one to three years of graduate study at Oxford. This year <b>Mary Clare Beytagh </b>received this award.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Course 5-7 Undergraduate awards</b></font></div>
<div>The following students were acknowledged and thanked for their work with the Biology Undergraduate Student Association Executive Board:<b> Muskaan Aggarwal, Meena Chakraborty, Celeste Dang, Maya Jay, Sandhya Kalavacherla, Elizabeth Li, Zilu Pan, William
Phu, Anna Sappington, Thomas Xiong, Leon Yim, </b><b>Alice Zhou</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The department thanks the following students for their service to the department by meeting and giving tour of their labs to prospective undergraduate students: <b>Meena Chakraborty, Celeste Dang, Courtney Diamond, Maya
Jay, Elizabeth Li, Xu Liang.</b></div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>Janice</div>
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